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mrs.puff
Lovin' The Homestead
Thanks everyone-- I sent an email to a local beekeeping club to see what they suggest... but I'm not able to check private email here at school! I can check at one school, but not the other.
Just as an added bit of information, just over the hill about a mile away as the crow flies, the Iowa DNR (dept of nat. resources) sold logging rights in a portion of the state forest, but the loggers were required to cut ALL the trees over a certain size, whether they were usable or not. Needless to say, there was a PILE of HUNDREDS of hollow trees just left laying in stacks all along the road up there. Local folks are pretty mad, and some even spoke to the loggers, who themselves were unhappy about the whole thing. So therefore-- no hollow trees=bees in my duck box.
I also know of a hive nearby that has been inside an old discarded hot water heater for at least three years now.
Just as an added bit of information, just over the hill about a mile away as the crow flies, the Iowa DNR (dept of nat. resources) sold logging rights in a portion of the state forest, but the loggers were required to cut ALL the trees over a certain size, whether they were usable or not. Needless to say, there was a PILE of HUNDREDS of hollow trees just left laying in stacks all along the road up there. Local folks are pretty mad, and some even spoke to the loggers, who themselves were unhappy about the whole thing. So therefore-- no hollow trees=bees in my duck box.
I also know of a hive nearby that has been inside an old discarded hot water heater for at least three years now.
